Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--The office of Production Management tonight placed a ban, effective immediately, on manufacture of cellophane and other transparent materials used for wrapping many non-defense items including cosmetics, razor blades and soaps...
Fortnight ago a bald little Japanese general nicknamed The Razor became Premier of Japan. Hideki Tojo's* sparse mustache looks as if it might blow off in a stiff breeze and his tortoise-shell spectacles have a slightly cockeyed, precarious perch on his nose. Nevertheless the world press shuddered with apprehension that The Razor might be the raging snickersnee that the Japanese Army had been crying for, that Japan's months of indecision would now be resolved by mad swipes at Siberia, at Singapore, or at both...
...next year General Itagaki was salvaged from a "glorious" defeat in China and became War Minister. He called the faithful Tojo to be Vice Minister. In this office The Razor stropped himself so viciously on munitions capitalists whom his chiefs wanted given subtle handling that he was kicked upstairs to be Director General of Army Aviation Instruction. In 1939 he became Chief of the Air Force...
...back room is the room. About 75 beds take up most of the floor space. ... Off in the back corner is a walled-off room with free showers, about a dozen of them. Free towels, free soap, free razor, razor blades, shaving cream, after shave lotion, tooth paste...
Brooding over a fancied insult in connection with the order, Marie got a razor, slashed the Black Boy from its frame, toted it, with the other two pictures, to the Hampton Bays estate. There she built a fire in an outdoor oven, burned the Black Boy and Charles the Bold to a crisp, scattered the half-charred remains of the Wayfarer on the beach, where the tides of Shinnecock Bay soon swallowed them. The Black Boy was insured for $25,000, the other two for $19,000. Last week, recovering from a suicide attempt in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital...